Anchors Away.

In 2011, CBS news anchor, Harry Smith, left the network after 25 years to head on over to NBC.  I don’t watch a lot of network news, so I don’t know exactly what or how he’s doing over there, but I do remember him from The Early Show—and many stints as substitute anchor on the evening news.

Researching this post, I’ve discovered some things about Mr. Smith that I never knew and a couple of things we have in common.  We both have an undergraduate degree in theater.  His is a combined communications and theater degree from Central College in Iowa.

And we both spent time in Denver, CO.  In fact, we were there at the same time.  Who knew?!

Harry stayed longer than I did, though.

Subsequently, he spent thirteen years as a contributor to CBS Evening News and other CBS news programming, nine years as co-anchor of CBS This Morning and another nine years with CBS The Early Show along with various documentary, radio and other tv hosting tasks for other networks.

Another thing I didn’t know about him is that, apparently, he regularly commutes to work on a folding bike.

I think that’s kind of cool!

Go, Harry!